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Donald Rodney : a reader.

Contributor(s): Publication details: London : Whitechapel Gallery, 2025.Description: 207 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780854883257
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Contents:
Foreword / Gilane Tawadros -- Introduction / Robert Leckie and Nicole Yip -- In search of El Dorado / Keith Piper -- Enter at your own risk: Artist-as-trickster-as-prophet-as-historian-as-witness-as-freedom-fighter-as-artist: Donald Rodney / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Making myself visible: self-portraiture and representations of blackenss in the work of Donald Rodney / Alice Correia -- Image of pain: Physicality in the art of Donald Rodney / Virginia Nimarkoh -- Who'd a thought it? Exploring interplay between the work of Frida Kahlo and Donald Rodney / Eddie Chambers -- Looking for Eldorado: Donald Rodney's early sketchbooks / Janice Cheddie -- Intertwining histories in Donald Rodney's 'Untitled ('Cowboy and Indian' after David Hockney's 'We Two Boys Together Clinging', 1961)', 1989 / Gregory Salter -- In the house of my father: Fragments of body and time / Diane Symons -- Donald Rodney: Autoicon / Richard Birkett -- Things arrive together as suffused and inseparable / Jareh Das, Carolyn Lazard and Robert Leckie in conversation -- Donald Rodney: Black art with a cutting edge / Kwesi Owusu -- Theory and practice / Keith Piper and Donald Rodney -- Critical / Lubaina Himid, Donald Rodney and Maud Sulter -- CATARACT (Progressive opacity of eye-lens): Light box and bronze pieces / Donald Rodney -- Chronology / Carolina Jozami
Summary: Donald Rodney: A Reader is a selection of crucial texts exploring the artist's work. Including perspectives from leading art historians, peers and the artist himself, these essays and previously unpublished writings illuminate Donald Rodney's enduring influence on contemporary art and cultural discourse. This reader brings together crucial perspectives from leading art historians, artists and peers, illuminating artist Donald Rodney's enduring influence on contemporary art and cultural discourse. Adopting the physical dimensions of Rodney's treasured sketchbooks, this book includes full-scale reproductions of his notes and drawings, alongside selected works spanning his career.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room ROD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 13184

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker', held at Spike Island, Bristol, 25 May - 8 September 2024; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, 27 September 2024 - 5 January 2025; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 12February - 4 May 2025.

Includes bibliographical references (pp.200-202).

Foreword / Gilane Tawadros -- Introduction / Robert Leckie and Nicole Yip -- In search of El Dorado / Keith Piper -- Enter at your own risk: Artist-as-trickster-as-prophet-as-historian-as-witness-as-freedom-fighter-as-artist: Donald Rodney / Celeste-Marie Bernier -- Making myself visible: self-portraiture and representations of blackenss in the work of Donald Rodney / Alice Correia -- Image of pain: Physicality in the art of Donald Rodney / Virginia Nimarkoh -- Who'd a thought it? Exploring interplay between the work of Frida Kahlo and Donald Rodney / Eddie Chambers -- Looking for Eldorado: Donald Rodney's early sketchbooks / Janice Cheddie -- Intertwining histories in Donald Rodney's 'Untitled ('Cowboy and Indian' after David Hockney's 'We Two Boys Together Clinging', 1961)', 1989 / Gregory Salter -- In the house of my father: Fragments of body and time / Diane Symons -- Donald Rodney: Autoicon / Richard Birkett -- Things arrive together as suffused and inseparable / Jareh Das, Carolyn Lazard and Robert Leckie in conversation -- Donald Rodney: Black art with a cutting edge / Kwesi Owusu -- Theory and practice / Keith Piper and Donald Rodney -- Critical / Lubaina Himid, Donald Rodney and Maud Sulter -- CATARACT (Progressive opacity of eye-lens): Light box and bronze pieces / Donald Rodney -- Chronology / Carolina Jozami

Donald Rodney: A Reader is a selection of crucial texts exploring the artist's work. Including perspectives from leading art historians, peers and the artist himself, these essays and previously unpublished writings illuminate Donald Rodney's enduring influence on contemporary art and cultural discourse. This reader brings together crucial perspectives from leading art historians, artists and peers, illuminating artist Donald Rodney's enduring influence on contemporary art and cultural discourse. Adopting the physical dimensions of Rodney's treasured sketchbooks, this book includes full-scale reproductions of his notes and drawings, alongside selected works spanning his career.